We no longer check in limited retention items (such as newsletters) or
most items archived in microform such as news magazines.  We have notes
in the check-in instructions to that effect for the student workers.  We
have discussed other items that might be candidates for no check-in, but
that's where we are right now.

Jennifer van Sickle
Serials Librarian & Sciences Coordinator
Trinity College Library
300 Summit St.
Hartford, CT USA 06106

jennifer.vansickle@trincoll.edu

phone: 860-297-2250
fax: 860-297-2251

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From: SERIALST: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum
[mailto:SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU] On Behalf Of Katherine Haggerty
Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2007 3:05 PM
To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU
Subject: Re: [SERIALST] Serials check in?

To reframe the serials check-in discussion a little; I am interested in
libraries that do SELECTIVE check-in.  I've always thought there is a
wide spectrum of possibilities between checking in everything and
checking in nothing. How do you decide what to check-in and what not to
check-in (price? last copy responsibilities? online available? ILL
availability?)? How do separate what gets checked-in from what does not
get checked-in? Do you have any methods for sampling what doesn't get
checked-in to see if there are receipt issues? What about binding? Do
you you bind only the check-in titles?  I'm sure I've left out some
important issues...

Thanks,
Kat Haggerty

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Katherine Haggerty
Catalog Maintenance and Order Specialist
Serials Department, CB #3938
Davis Library, University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, NC 27514-8890 U.S.A.
Phone:  (919) 962-1067  Fax:  (919) 962-4450
Email:  haggerty@email.unc.edu
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